Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1921, Volume II

861.00/8645: Telegram

The Chargé in Japan (Bell) to the Secretary of State

Tokyo, May 27, 1921—10 p.m.
[Received May 28—4:52 a.m.]

189. following from Vladivostok:

“May 27, 5 p.m. Night quiet, fighting resumed 8 o’clock in the morning lasted thirty minutes. By noon the Japanese disarmed police barracks where the late ministers gathered. Total casualties perhaps twenty. Situation insecure.”

Bell